they didn’t have to make volo specifically a merchant for pla to work at all they could’ve easily done it differently but it’s very funny

•he constantly is saying stuff like you’re my favorite most loyal supportive customer ever! lovebombing from the start. talk about aggressive sales tactics

•he says this right off the bat the entire time despite the fact that you can’t even buy anything from him until late in the game

•because in almost all his appearances up until then he immediately darts off the second you’re done talking to him. no time for trying to push stuff on you like a clever professional salesman he’s got places to be (rocks to look at)

•you see him actually doing his job one time when he makes a delivery to gaeric. usually he’s just running around hounding people for information

•what he does is occasionally hand you free stuff from his stash

•he himself accidentally acknowledges his own tendency to shirk his duties before correcting himself like uh i mean uh

•as cogita mentions im sure ginter is not pleased lol

•he has infinite of every item for purchase but he doesn’t have three pieces of wood on hand

•he does have a whole change of outfit in that big old backpack though. and the ability to make it magically disappear

•the first time he finally stays in one place long enough for you to buy from him is during the apocalypse

•he charges you money

•i mean of course he charges you money he’s got a job to do but like

•he charges you (chosen hero only person strong enough to save anyone) money (full price) during the apocalypse (space and time are breaking down and the sky is bleeding)

•the apocalypse that HE CAUSED

•IT’S HIS FAULT WE’RE IN THIS MESS

•LIAR AND SCAM ARTIST

•is your business running dry? are you not getting enough customers? try making a deal with the devil to rip open the space-time continuum so that you can summon people from the future and take everything away from them so that they’re in a position to need your product. works every time

I find this doubly funny in Pokémon Masters because he spends the entirety of his first story chapter using "I'm a merchant" as an excuse for everything. "Why do you know this?" "Well it's helpful to know, as a merchant." "Why are you good at this?" "Well, being a merchant, I've developed many skills." "Why are you interested in that?" "Did I mention that I'm a merchant?"

And of course. Most(?) of the audience knows that he's lying. He's bullshitting every time and no one is confident enough to call him on it. Everyone just kinda shrugs and goes "yeah I guess investigating the nature of God would help you sell Poké Balls, I've never really had to consider that before."

there’s a phenomenon when it comes to enjoying a male character in a piece of media where it’s so much fun and i love my blorbo and i want to talk about my blorbo and read analysis of my blorbo but i realize very fast and very hard that the majority of fans made up a version of him that appeals to their horniness and it’s become the popular and standard interpretation and i do not care for that guy at all like i’d beat him with hammers actually

you know i am a huge fan of when characters are technically alive or dead by all rights but their function in the narrative is the opposite. like a character who is alive but trapped somewhere/comatose/etc for an extended period of time/forever and has no agency to save themselves and there’s little to no hope of anyone else saving them from that situation? they’re alive strictly speaking like they never died or anything but they are functionally dead in the narrative. on the flip side if a character has died but they come back as a ghost or a zombie or whatever undead being and in that state they retain some sort of agency and they’re still actively driving and pushing the story just like any other character? they may be dead but for all intents and purposes they’re alive and here. y’know

i wish volo was real so i could hit him with my car

i wish volo was real so i could hit him with my car

at the point and click adventure club straight up unsure what to do next

Goin' up to a girl like "She doesn't want to talk to me right now. She doesn't want to- She doe- She doesn't want to talk to me right no- That's the bartender, but I think I've had enough for toni- I can't leave, the party's just getting started!"

i wish volo was real so i could hit him with my car

he was the one that got away….

you can't say "check it out" these days without being in the house like carpet

You cannot let the OC consume you entirely otherwise you will find yourself reading posts that are like “tbh i do prefer winter to summer” and saying shit like “this is literally the suicidal pervert”

Oh, you think it's "adorable" that I fell asleep on your lap? Well, it's a mark of my utter contempt. That's how little I fear you.

FINALLY SOMETHING THAT ISNT N ART

Anyways, melli on the lil like arch thing at moonview arena. I hope he explodes because i love him too much :D

Poorly drawn Spinarak line

how long did it take her to smile?

smth smth

decided to make a few more. even compressed them fresh for u

Toy guitar that's out of tune, Eyes fixed on morning time cartoons

twt really liked my dess design